A long line of fans trailed the J Street corner leading to Harlow’s Thursday night to hear the otherworldly rock sounds of San Diego’s indie music pundit Pinback. The anticipation in the air thickened enough to emotionally throttle an hour-long, traffic-triggered delay, and in what seemed like barely a blink, the venue brimmed with both laughter and musical absorption. The laughter was mostly spurred by a multimedia of satire and absurdity by opener JP Hasson, also known as JP Incorporated. Hasson’s shtick, self-described as a “wonderful company, specializing in a variety of quality products and services” featured such products and programming as “Jazzbot Xtreme,” a monster truck that tra

This Thursday you'll have a chance to end 2010 on a good note by catching indie-rock fave Pinback at Harlow's. The heart of the San Diego band has always been Zach Smith and Rob Crow, and with an upcoming album on the horizon and to stay fresh creatively, the duo is taking a different approach to performing on their current outing. As Smith explains: "We've decided to have some fun and present our songs in a new light. Instead of playing our songs the traditional way by having a backup band play all of our extra parts we thought it would be entertaining and fresh for just the two of us to play live. The idea is to present our music at times in a more broken down manner very similar sound

Truth & Salvage Co. plus Monophonics at two different venues in one night equals the most unproductive Sunday in history. There’s your Sactown Rundown math lesson for the week. It was a heck of a Saturday evening, with Truth & Salvage Co. throwing down an Americana rock wallop of a set last weekend at Harlow’s. It seems like these six guys from North Carolina have officially earmarked Sacramento as a “must stop” when they head out West on tour, so if you haven’t caught them yet, we’ll be sure to let you know next time they come through. And yes, they did indeed dedicate a song to Sac Press’ Lindol French. Wow. Soulive – There’s no denying that an album full of instrumental jazz Beatles